That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.

Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefathers that "it is better farther on"-- only instead of farther on in space, it was farther on in time, over the horizon of the years ahead instead of the far horizon of the west.